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Indiana Pacers<\/a> (15-41, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards<\/a> (15-39, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Washington; Friday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Pacers -2; over\/under is 231.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Washington faces Indiana in a matchup of Eastern Conference teams.<\/p>\n

The Wizards are 10-23 in Eastern Conference games. Washington has a 2-2 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n

The Pacers are 11-27 in conference games. Indiana is seventh in the Eastern Conference with 32.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Ivica Zubac<\/a> averaging 7.6.<\/p>\n

The Wizards average 112.1 points per game, 6.4 fewer points than the 118.5 the Pacers allow. The Pacers average 12.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 13.9 per game the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Wizards won 112-105 in the last matchup on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Kyshawn George<\/a> is averaging 14.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.7 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley<\/a> is averaging 12.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Andrew Nembhard<\/a> is averaging 17.1 points and 7.4 assists for the Pacers. Ben Sheppard<\/a> is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 5-5, averaging 111.7 points, 42.7 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 9.9 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Pacers: 4-6, averaging 115.4 points, 41.9 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 7.9 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Wizards: Anthony Davis<\/a>: out for season (finger), Cam Whitmore<\/a>: out for season (shoulder), D’Angelo Russell: out (not injury related), Alex Sarr<\/a>: out (hamstring), Trae Young: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Pacers: Aaron Nesmith: day to day (ankle), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: out for season (knee), T.J. McConnell<\/a>: out (hamstring), Kam Jones: day to day (back), Ivica Zubac: out (ankle), Pascal Siakam: out (personal), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Pacers (15-41, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (15-39, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,1784,495,7,642,4836,78812,126,532,6333,1407,6,3886,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-613441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-andrew-nembhard","10":"tag-anthony-davis","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-ben-sheppard","13":"tag-cam-whitmore","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-indiana-pacers","16":"tag-ivica-zubac","17":"tag-kyshawn-george","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-t-j-mcconnell","21":"tag-washington","22":"tag-washington-wizards","23":"tag-washingtonwizards","24":"tag-will-riley","25":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116102383845319408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}